Louie Gohmert: Don’t close embassies

Rep. Louie Gohmert berated the government’s decision to close embassies across the world, saying it made the U.S. look “weak.”

“We’re the strongest country in the world militarily, even though the president’s doing a lot of hacking and cutting now, but we should not [close our embassies],” the Texas Republican said in response to a caller on Sean Hannity’s radio show, which he guest hosted on Monday afternoon. “[I] don’t want any more people to die … and it brings us back to the Hillary Clinton question, ‘What difference does it make?’ Well, the difference it makes is if you’ll bother to find out exactly what went wrong, why you didn’t have security where you needed … what you can do to make sure that doesn’t happen again, you don’t have to close your embassies like a bunch of cowards that go running away.”

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The congressman compared the current embassy situation to the one in the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, saying that then the people expected the government to stand up but instead we looked “gutless” as President Jimmy Carter’s diplomatic strategy was only “please, please, will you please give us our people back,” followed by one failed rescue attempt.